WHMIS (Methylene chloride)

Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System

WHMIS 2015 classification - Note to reader

• Acute toxicity - oral - Category 41 2

• Skin corrosion/irritation - Category 22

• Serious eye damage/eye irritation - Category 2A2 3

• Carcinogenicity - Category 1B4 5

• Specific target organ toxicity - single exposure (narcotic effects) - Category 3 - Narcotic effect6

Danger

Harmful if swallowed (H302)
Causes skin irritation (H315)
Causes serious eye irritation (H319)
May cause cancer (H350)
May cause drowsinesss or dizziness (H336)

Ingredient disclosure

References

• ▲1.  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, RTECS (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances). Hamilton (Ont) : Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety.   http://ccinfoweb.ccohs.ca/rtecs/search.html
• ▲2.  Centre canadien d'hygiène et de sécurité au travail, CHEMINFO, Hamilton, Ont. : Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety   http://ccinfoweb.ccohs.ca/cheminfo/search.html
• ▲3.  American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, Documentation of the threshold limit values and biological exposure indices / Documentation of TLV's and BEI's. 7th ed. Cincinnati, Ohio : ACGIH. (2001-). Publication #0100Doc. [RM-514008]   http://www.acgih.org
• ▲4.  Benbrahim-Tallaa, L. et al., «Carcinogenicity of perfluorooctanoic acid, tetrafluoroethylene, dichloromethane, 1,2-dichloropropane, and 1,3-propane sultone.» The Lancet Oncology. Vol. 15, no. 9, p. 924-925. (2014).
• ▲5.  IARC Working Group on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans, Some Chemicals Used as Solvents and in Polymer Manufacture . IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks, Vol. 110. Lyon : IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks. (2016).   http://monographs.iarc.fr/
  http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol110/mono110.pdf
• ▲6.  France. Institut national de recherche et de sécurité, Fiche toxicologique no 34 : Dichlorométhane. Cahiers de notes documentaires. Paris : INRS. (2010). [RE-005509]   http://www.inrs.fr/publications/bdd/fichetox.html
  http://www.inrs.fr/publications/bdd/fichetox/fiche.html?refINRS=FICHETOX_34

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